In Cat, what does 'trill-ack-squeak" mean?

[TrogL]

Poll question: In Cat, what does 'trill-ack-squeak" mean?

Context - black cat, yellow eyes, shorthair with bushy tail, size of a kitten but apparently full grown, has taken over the bathmat as its own personal property.

[Kajsa]

1. Trogl, my short haired, black kitty, Nemo,

does the same thing.

He has a thing for the bathroom, especially the bathroom
mat. Yes, he thinks it's HIS bathroom.

We mere humans are disturbing his nap when we want
to use it.

:D

[petronius]

2. Everything in Cat means the same thing: feedmepetmefuckoffgimmetreats!

:)

[madinmaryland]

3. Goomp, ugh, gak, Goomp, ugh, gak, Goomp, ugh, gak,

Goomp, ugh, gak, Goomp, ugh, gak, Goomp, ugh, gak,

Means that a hairball is coming up soon!

:puke:

[ghostsofgiants]

4. Not sure, but doesn't that mean "I wanna rock your body, baby" in Klingon?

[Arugula Latte]

5. One of my kitties makes that sound when he encounters something very soft.

He gets a look of ecstasy and trills and squeaks and kneads it with his paws.

I think it's either sexual (even though he's neutered) or he's reliving those salad days of hanging around cat mom's extra-soft belly.

[hippywife]

6. Is the cat in question spayed or neutered?

We found out one of our babies went into heat for the first time when she did something similar. She normally walks around without uttering a sound. You have to accidentally step on her to get her to even utter a peep. She started making trilling sounds one weekend and shortly thereafter, ahem...presented herself to the male adult in the house.

She was fixed by the end of the next week. :hi:

[Forkboy]

7. Roughly translated it means, "I hate mieces to pieces!"

:)

[TZ]

8. Sounds like the noise my cats make

when I pick them up and they don't want to be..at least th ack-squeak part..:)

[geardaddy]

9. It means:

"Get up! It's 4 am! I'm hungry!"

[Bucky]

10. Did your cat trill, or did she actually *say* the word "trill"?

If it's the latter, I think you can pretty much take "trill-ack-squeak" at face value.

[TrogL]

12. She trills. It's one of her favourite sounds.

[yellowdogintexas]

16. comfort. fresh fish. feed/pet/touch me now. absence of dogs.

at least according to my new 2009 cat of the day calendar .

[TrogL]

11. It's "TURN OFF THAT FUCKING LIGHT"

She just did it again.

[KamaAina]

13. "Our plan is coming to fruition at last..."

"...we overthrow the humans at dawn!!"

[Orsino]

14. "I like you."

"We will eat you last."

[DevonRex]

15. "I'm bringing you a dead mouse." OR "Bring ME a dead mouse."

[lizziegrace]

17. You're eating cheese?? I WANT CHEESE TOO!

:)

[Lorien]

18. Usually a trill means "come here"

although that doesn't really fit here-unless the kitty is saying "come here-no, not that close! My bathmat"!!

[astral]

19. 'Tis his bathroom, allright!

He just greeted you for coming to visit him in his abode.

My cat used to love to throw himself on the bathroom rug whenever I went in there, now I notice he often goes in there to nap when I'm not in there.

[badgerpup]

20. "Other"...

Was there a yawn and/or stretch and/or rolling-onto-the-back included with the sound effects?

If so, then it was probably a greeting/friendly 'acknowledgement-of-your-presence' sound.

It's difficult to tell, just reading the text and not seeing or hearing the cat...they are each a law unto themselves.




My boys display a behavior is very recognizable as a 'greeting', and nothing else.
Riktor, Wimsey, or Finnegan will come up to me, put both front paws on my knee, then
s-t-r-e-t-c-h his left arm as though waving "Hi". Riktor (the eldest) has done this since he was a kitten, and both Wimsey and Finnegan seem to have learned this from him.
I respond by acknowledging both the Presence and greeting, bestowing a skritch and a pet, and inquiring "What's on your furry little mind?"

This satisfies custom and he will then return to whatever he was doing.

If they actually want me for something...say, the opening of a door, the behavior is different. They'll vocalize, go back and forth, and -in Riktor's case- ensure my attention by a deliberate poke-poke-poke from an elegant little black paw ...with one claw delicately extended.

I hope the other two boys don't pick that one up from him, too...

[ashling]

21. Kitty orgasms

That is the sound my cat makes when she is running from window to window to wath the birds and squirrels outside. I call it window shopping. Ms. Ashling says they sound like little kitty orgasms.

:rofl:

Seriously, I wonder if this vocalization has developed as a way to attract birds. Sort of sounds like a wounded bird fallen out of the nest.

I have seen a woodpecker mock a broken wing on the ground to draw a cat away from its nest. Perhaps this evolved as the direct opposite?

Just a thought.